Product Specialist

Weir ESCO

Johannesburg

Hybrid - 50% business travel

Purpose of Role: As a product specialist you will get to interact with internal and external customers, and suppliers, on a daily basis. You will leverage your technical prowess and commercial astuteness to support the ESCO sales team and our customers to cement our position as Trusted Technical Advisors to their operations. Your on-site presence at our fabricators, project managing our capital bucket builds through manufacturing and commissioning buckets on site provides a sketch-to-dirt engineering experience.

Why choose Weir:

Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.

An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.

Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.

Key Responsibilities:

• Focus Area: Technical support of sales team:
• Product selection, implementation and troubleshooting support.
• Technical presentations to customers to support market share growth.
• Focus Area: Fabrication project management:
• Quoting.
• Management of and accountability for internal processes related to project.
• Fabrication supplier management including supplier selection, lead time management, technical support, quality management and final project sign-off.
• Management of logistics related to project.
• Commissioning of project.
• Focus Area: Product training and implementation of new products.
• Focus Area: Technical support of fabrication project warranties.
• Focus Area: Liaison between international design engineering teams and local sales team.
• Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviors in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.
  
  

Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree - Mechanical Engineering
• Related Technical Trade coupled with suitable technical experience will be considered
• Effective communication with variety of personalities and skill levels
• Adept at supplier and customer management in difficult situations
• Highly detail oriented
  
  

Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.

For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.

Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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